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High Street Market shop co-owner, Interior Designer, wife to Dave, and (most recently) "mommy" to William. Living in Philadelphia, born and raised in Southern California. Renovating a fabulous historic home (with no end in sight) and trying to enjoy all the beautiful things in life. :)

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Last week, I wrote a post on the truly fantastic assortment of area rugs at Calypso St. Barth. At the end of the post, I shared a designer tip: layer a smaller, more colorful rug over a larger neutral rug for a layered effect. Not only will this bring more interest to the room, but it will let you switch out the color scheme whenever you want to change things up.

9 comments:

I have an antique oushak layered over a jute rug in my living room and I love it. I think it makes a patterned rug much more of statement when layered over something more neutral. Love the first image, I'm really into shaggy geometric Moroccan rugs right now!

I always enjoy you, your blog, etc... you're like a breath of fresh air!!! (Wanted to say that FIRST!)...

HOWEVER (don't "worry"... it's not too bad, girlfriend! Grins!), I respectfully must say that altho I've usually liked the layered look, these particular pics, for the most part, weren't pleasing to the eye... at least for me... aesthetically... I dunno~ most of the time things felt/looked rather "disjointed" & a bit "chaotic", for lack of a better word... "Just sayin'".........